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                                  43    Starting tomorrow                 49    Mother says,
                                        everyone must                           Worry instead
                                        leave the house.                        about getting sleep

                                  44    Mother starts sewing                    because from now on
                                        at a factory;                           no more naps.
                                        Brother Quang begins                    You will eat lunch
                                        repairing cars.                         at school
                                                                                with friends.
                                  45    The rest of us
                                        must go to school,                50    What friends?
                                        repeating the last grade,         51    You’ll make some.
                                        left unfinished.
                                                                          52    What if I can’t?
                                  46    Brother Vũ wants
                                                                          53    You will.
                                        to be a cook
                                        or teach martial arts,            54    What will I eat?
                                        not waste a year                  55    What your friends eat.
                                        as the oldest senior.
                                                                          56    But what will I eat?
                                  47    Mother says
                                                                          57    Be surprised.
                                        one word:                               I hate surprises.
                                        University.                       58

                                                                          59    Be agreeable.
                                  48    Brother Khôi
                                        gets an old bicycle to ride,      60    Not without knowing
                                        but Mother says                         what I’m agreeing to.
                                        I’m too young for one             61    Mother sighs,
                                        even though I’m                         walking away.
                                        a ten-year-old                                        September 1
                                        in the fourth grade,
                                        when everyone else

                                        is nine.

















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